Wordle (NO SPOILERS)

TINEA
BRASH
CADDY
LOCAL

TINEA
CLAMP
LOCAL

Edit.. looking at others.... had I thought of FOCAL, then I don't get three...FL beats LL

TINEA
ROACH
VOCAL
FOCAL
LOCAL

TINEA
POACH
VOCAL
FOCAL
LOCAL

I don't necessarily agree with this at all. In fact I often opt when I have a letter in yellow to then put it in 2 spots on my next guess.

At worst you find it's exact location (save for the rare double miss, leaving you with a 50/50), or at best you hit both either green or yellow.

Yeah for us we didn’t have the L yet so focal>local to get 2 new letters

But since you had the l o a then local being a good word is prolly better than focal but it’s close and maybe 50/50ish

But without the L focal>local for me

Our replies are almost identical

Fair enough to disagree.

For me I feel there are many times where a player can determine the exact location of a miss without hitting green. It could be due to certain consonant pairings or other letter combos just not being possible (or likely). And, for me at least, I think it is "generally" +EV to avoid the risk of a double miss while also reaping the benefits of putting 2 instead of 1 new consonants in play.

I say generally because I am not sure I am going to take this board __ __ A __ E and go with KNAVE over STATE at some point due to the infrequent occurrence of K and V.

I guess it would be neat to see what a good program running these words would do. I am sure there must be something out there calculating the next "optimum" pick based on where a person is in the game with known letters in correct spots, known letters in wrong spots, and unused letters.

STEAM
SLOPE
SHIRE
SINCE

get off the schneid

STEAM
SCOPE
SLICE
SINCE